"Roar!"

A deafening roar echoed through the hallway, nearly shattering the alloy walls and floor.

Meng Liang's expression was distorted by pain.

He poked out half of his head to look into the hallway, and could almost see the clouds of dust kicked up by the massive impact.

"Damn······ This thing is a bit of a sinister thing! ”

Dodging the whizzing fatal blow, the Battlefield glanced at the door panel behind him, which was embedded in the wall and vibrated like a tuning fork, and his face turned slightly pale.

Boy!

What is this, the goddess of war, Sivir.

If this is cut, even Brother Guang will have to be cut in half......

I thought it was a shield warrior who was facing him, but I didn't expect the rotten knight to directly bang twice, and smashed the "shield" and "sword" in his hand towards him and Su Ming like a javelin.

"......"

With a steel bar on his chest, Su Ming struggled to get up from the ground.

Ignoring the burning pain in his chest, he barely concentrated his trance-like spirit, grabbed the Gauss rifle that had fallen to the ground, and aimed it at the monster standing at the end of the corridor.

"Die!!"

The moment the index finger pulls the trigger, the arc flashes!

Countless projectiles erupted from the chamber of the spear and rained down on the end of the hallway, sparks jumping from the rotten knight's armor for a moment.

Unfortunately, it didn't break through his armor!

The rotten knight stretched out his right hand, clasped it against the door of one side of the room, and ripped it off with a sharp force.

The faces of the two of them changed, and the battlefield guy continued to pull the trigger and fire while yelling at Su Ming on the side.

"Not enough power! What the hell can you... Charged? ”

He remembered that Night Ten's Gauss rifle could increase the penetration of a single mass bullet by charging it.

A fatal blow that can be fired at full charge, even through the armor of a Conquistador tank!

Obviously, he also discovered that the evolutionary body's defense was ridiculously strong, and before the battlefield guy's voice fell, Su Ming had already taken a deep breath and set up the guy in his hand.

The number of the battery capacity indicator drops rapidly, and the front end of the capacitor emits a light blue arc light, and the seeping muzzle of the gun is brewing terrifying energy!

"I need time!"

"How long?" Looking at the rotten knight who had been hit by a shuttle and was still fine, the Battlefield asked through gritted teeth while changing the magazine.

"Ten-"

Before the words fell, the wind howled, and the Rotten Knight standing at the end of the corridor suddenly exerted force on his feet, and the whole person rushed towards him like a cannonball.

The wide-open attack caught both of them by surprise, and a hurricane blew through the swept door panel, and just one contact sent Su Minglian flying out with a gun, making him incapacitated, and soon slashed at the battlefield guy, knocking the latter into the wall of the corridor.

"Ahem——!"

The warfielder, who had accidentally bitten his mouth, gulped a mouthful of bloody spit, glanced at the rifle that had been broken in two, and tossed it aside.

Thanks to the subconscious block he just now, otherwise that just moment would have been enough to send him back to his hometown.

Thinking of this, the battlefield guy couldn't help but be afraid for a while.

Such a terrifying force—

It's hard to quantify into attributes, and it's hard to break 100!

The most important thing is that its speed and defense are not weak at all, and it has the absolute defense as hard as a turtle shell and the tenacious vitality unique to slime molds.

Even if an occasional bullet can penetrate a weak link in its defenses, it is simply not enough to inflict fatal damage on it.

This is not a competition of the same level at all!

"Damn... …··”

The Warfield gritted his teeth and drew his dagger from his waist, slashing at the head of the decaying knight as it lunged at him again.

Just listen to the muffled sound of the bell!

He only felt that the short sword in his hand felt like it had been chopped on a mountain, and it shook his mouth with a short tingling pain. Before he could come back to his senses, the whole person had been lifted out by the door panel on his chest.

The bulletproof armor on the chest is dented inwards by the top,

The Battlefield snorted and slammed his back to the ground.

Not far away, the head of the Decaying Knight was simply shaved off with a dark red fungus blanket by the toothpick-like dagger. 3

His full force didn't even leave a single scratch on his helmet.

But think about it......

That's power armor.

The Warfield said with a wry smile, thinking that he had known that the evolved person he had met was a Corrupt Knight, and he would not come here for anything.

However, there is no regret medicine anymore, and he is only glad that he seized the opportunity to save the file before he was lucky.

Step by step, he walked in front of him.

The rotten knight raised his right arm in the air, and the door panel in his hand was about to smash the battlefield into pulp.

But at this moment, the movement of its hand suddenly stopped.

The battlefield guy who opened half of his eyes found that the place where he had been slashed by his sword before revealed half of the eyepiece the size of a palm.

It had been covered in a thick blanket of mushrooms.

An unsettling scarlet glow shimmered behind the eyepiece, and suddenly a circle of pale blue ripples swept across the mirror.

The power armor, which had been completely paralyzed, and even the reactor had been turned off, seemed to be awakened after activating a program.

The limited power was pouring out of the backup power supply, and the reverse-driven mechanical structure completely stopped its movements, completely freezing the raised right arm.

Even as the flesh beneath the steel rotted—what remnants of his will still reigned over the invincible armor.

With an exhaust sound, a tubular fusion cell ejected from the back of the armor. At the same time, a low roar mixed with the sound of electricity leaked out of the helmet.

"Kill······ Already·...· … I. ’

There is no time to hesitate.

Su Ming, who had recovered his mobility, gritted his teeth to support half of his body, and threw a round tubular plasma grenade in the direction of the pangolin.

“…· The silver pull tab is the switch! Plug this thing into the battery port of the power armor... …… Behind it! ”

Knowing what he meant, the Battlefield grabbed the grenade that rolled in front of him, quickly rolled over the back of the rotten knight, and unplugged the fusion battery from its back.

Then he pulled out the grenade's fuse and slammed into the loose battery connector.

"Get out of the way!"

There was no need for Su Ming's reminder at all, the battlefield guy who had completed this series of actions had already instinctively pounced on the front.

Almost at the same moment, a blinding white light exploded behind the Decay Knight, and the bursting electric sparks flew in all directions along with the leaping arc.

Solid-like plasma poured into the power armor, instantly scorching the armor-filled slime mold.

"Roaring ——!"

A roar of pain shook the hallway.

As if the power of his whole body was drained by the dazzling white light, the scarlet light that was sticking to the back of the tactical eyepiece gradually faded, and the entire armor completely lost power, and the body bent forward slightly, kneeling heavily on the ground.

Seeing that the evolution was finally killed, the battlefield guy lying on the ground finally breathed a sigh of relief, and gasped for a long time before gritting his teeth and dragging his body paralyzed by electricity to stand up from the ground.

I don't know when I had already walked to the front of the power armor, and Su Ming, who was carrying a Gauss rifle, looked at it silently and didn't speak for a long time.

Removing the inward-dented breastplate, the Battlefield walked over to him.

"Acquaintances?"

"Hmm."

Su Ming nodded silently.

The Warfielder's throat moved.

He had already guessed the identity of the man, but he asked anyway.

"He's ......"

"Captain Lu."

Su Ming didn't say anything, put his hand into the helmet with the mask open, took out the black card attached to the inside of the helmet, held it tightly in his hand, and finally stuffed it into the mezzanine of the exoskeleton.

That's a backup of the power armor's operational record.

The footage inside may explain what is really going on here......

Hearing that there was no movement outside, Meng Liang nervously walked out of the room on the side.

Looking at the power armor standing motionless, he swallowed.

"It's over?"

"Ah, it's over," the Warfield said, looking at the room at the end of the hallway, with a complicated expression, "the manager's office is ahead." ”

The three of them moved on.

The battlefield guy reached out and touched the event door, thinking that there would be some mechanism in front of him, but he didn't expect the door to open easily.

Behind the door is a modestly decorated room.

There is only one side of the book without a book, a desk, a chair, and a terminal on the desk.

Meng Liang walked forward quickly, and after turning on the phone, he threw his hands on the touch keyboard for a while, but he couldn't get into the system after trying for a long time.

"Use this." Su Ming walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and handed over the hard drive that Yun Ye had given him before.

"Thank you."

Meng Liang reached out and took it unwillingly, and plugged it into the interface on the side of the terminal.

With the introduction of the intelligent hacking program, after a while, he finally got the password of the manager's office terminal.

"The fire protection system in the power room has been activated and the brood has gone dormant······ It seems that the Willant and the Academy researcher are one step ahead of us. Meng Liang breathed a sigh of relief and sat down in his chair with relief. ②

In fact, as Yunye said, the terminals in the manager's office may not be able to bypass the core authority and shut down the reactor in the power room.

Thankfully, they had a second insurance and sent a team to the power room to manually activate the fire protection system, otherwise they would now be in even more trouble than the previous evolution.

"Anyway, the intelligence here is what we need." Su Ming cast an interested look at the terminal, "What the hell is in it?" ”

"I'm watching, don't worry·····"

Meng Liang tapped on the virtual keyboard with his ten fingers, and quickly unlocked the encrypted files stored in the terminal, and retrieved the information inside.

"Torch Project ······"

Looking at the documents opened on the screen, the more Meng Liang looked down, the tighter his brows wrinkled.

Noticing the change in the expression on his face, the Warfield immediately asked.

"What's on it?"

Meng Liang was silent for a moment, and finally moved out of the way.

"See for yourself."

Looking at the words on the screen, the Battlefield was dumbfounded.

Although he no longer has any major problems with daily communication, spoken and written language are two different things, and as far as the braille he knows, it is really no different from illiteracy.

Especially in this kind of specialized literature, he couldn't even understand the abstract part.

But fortunately, Su Ming next to him took the initiative to read it out and solved his illiteracy problem.

“···· When all the light has been extinguished and the world has fallen into the endless night, we will hold high the torch to dispel all darkness and rekindle the flame of civilization. ”

The Warfield couldn't help but ask.

"What do you mean?"

His eyes were fixed on the screen, and Meng Liang lowered his voice and said.

"It's literal······ The purpose of the whole 'Torch' project is not to solve any existing problems, but to completely restart the process that has entered the endless loop after all plans have failed. ”

After a pause, he continued.

"It's not a conventional form of shelter, it's the equivalent of shock treatment."

The Battlefield looked at him stunned.

“····· Is it necessary to do so? ”

Maybe because he's a player, and his mentality is also the player's mentality, so he feels that the world isn't very bad.

While the Wasteland Age is undoubtedly a rotten apple compared to the Age of Prosperity, he doesn't think it's rotten enough to warrant its destruction.

There are still many people who live on this land, in their own way, and have created their own civilization from the ruins.

Meng Liang took a deep breath, stared at the screen and continued.

"I can only try to understand from their point of view...... It is indeed difficult to clear the ruins on the wasteland, pillauder, xenomorphs, mutants... … And these are only minor problems, and there are more lethal mutants of slime molds, which are difficult to clean up even with nuclear weapons. ”

"Based on the original plan stored in the terminal, the initiators of the Torch Project tried to customize a special system, which mainly consisted of two parts: 'fire' and 'shank'."

"The goal of the former is to remove more than 99% of the life on the planet's surface with low side effects, leaving only a pure and pure environment. The goal of the latter is to turn the organisms that benefit the new civilization into the surviving 1% as much as possible, stored in containers called 'handles'. ”

"In the hypothetical scenario, when the 'torch' is lit, the life of the organisms on the surface will be harmlessly removed, and the organisms stored in the 'stalks' will be released, and the ecological environment of the surface will gradually return to the era of prosperity – and even before the era of prosperity."

Looking at the words in the terminal in a daze, Su Ming's face was full of disbelief.

He couldn't believe it.

The rumored Vault 0 to end all the suffering in the world and bring the Wasteland Age to a complete end turned out to be such a terrifying thing.

“·· So the premise of this plan is to kill all the people on this planet? ”

"Yes," Meng Liang nodded, his expression also full of complexity, "To be precise, it is to kill all organic life outside of the 'handle'. ”

"In the era of the People's Union, such a horrific plan could even get a budget." The Battlefield Atmosphere Team couldn't help but swallow.

Even with the game's premise, this sounds outrageous.

Meng Liang flipped through the contents of the plan, and after being silent for a moment, he finally defended the People's Federation.

"This nefarious project is not an official grant from the Human Federation, but, like many private shelters and commercial shelters, the budget is mainly funded by social funds, or more bluntly, by a small number of social elites. The program, while regulated by the same level as other commercial shelter schemes, is considered safe by the human resources authorities because the activation sequence is at the last level. ”

“···· … Can this still be safe? "It's relatively safe, after all, the device will only be activated after it has been confirmed that all shelters and other shelter programs have gone bankrupt. In other words, there shouldn't have been many living people on the planet at that time, and all that was left was xenomorphs or other things. ”

After a pause, Meng Liang continued.

"It's very difficult to get public support for this kind of project, so the project planners hide the whole plan, and most of the people involved in the study only know about part of the plan. For example... If you're a researcher on the 'Fire' team, you'll probably think you're developing a secret weapon for the People's Federation, and if you're on the 'Shank' team, you'll only know that you're involved in the development of some kind of sturdy shelter. ”

However, this plan did not succeed in the end, one was too late, and the other was that a researcher discovered a shadow that was hidden by the higher-ups

Scheme...... When they realized that they were being used to create a weapon that could kill themselves, almost all of them came out against the project. ”

"While the program's promoters have repeatedly said that the program will only start after all asylum programs have lapsed, there has been a reluctance to trust the lying elites."

"The Torch program ended up bankrupt with less than 20% of the budget consumed····· While there were countless shelter programs that went bankrupt in the last years of the boom era, it was quite rare for projects to go bankrupt due to collective opposition from the ranks. ”

When he said this, Meng Liang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The whole plan was like an accident.

Its existence was an accident, and its bankruptcy was an accident.

As for whether the authorities of the Federation of People have ever been moved by the "super weapon capable of destroying 99% of the life of organisms on the planet's surface" mentioned in this unfinished blueprint, no one knows.

All those who participated in this project, both those who opposed it and those who supported it, have been reduced to the dust of history.

“·· What about the unfinished materials? Where is it now? ”

When he said this, Su Ming glanced at the pangolin next to him without a trace, and his hand unconsciously touched the gun on his waist.

Before coming down here, he didn't expect Vault 0 to be such a place.

However, at this point, the box containing the devil has been opened, and no matter whether the torch project is completed or not, the information related to that plan cannot fall into the hands of the Willant people.

Coincidentally, the person he was wary of went with him.

If it's just a few black boxes or a few power armors, let the legion divide some and then divide it, and the manager is not such a stingy person.

But the nature of this thing is completely different...

It threatens not just the Alliance, but everyone on this planet.

If it really falls into the hands of the Willantes, there is no guarantee that those big-nosed people will not do something more evil... What will become in the end, no one dares to pack tickets.

His eyes were staring at the screen, and Meng Liang's expression was a little solemn.

"Data stored in the Vault's servers has been expunged."

"Deleted?!" Su Ming looked at him stunned, and said with a restrained expression, "I just deleted the experimental data...... Still have the proposal? ”！

"The proposal has been released to the public after the bankruptcy of the entire plan, it is not a confidential document, and the proposal is kept in the main server program in read-only mode, unless full administrative rights are obtained... You can't delete it with just this terminal. ”

When he said this, Meng Liang, who was tapping the virtual keyboard with his ten fingers, suddenly stopped his movements.

Noticing the change in his expression, Su Ming hurriedly asked.

"What's wrong?"

Meng Liang hesitated for a moment, considering that he was alone here, and the company's position as an ally, he finally confessed.

"It's not a clever way to delete that data, but with a little time, it can be fixed...... No, in fact, until two months ago, there were people trying to fix the deleted data. The archives in X-13, some of the terminals have records of frequent access to the database, and as of two months ago, the restoration work was completed. ”

However, the fixer did not upload the repaired data to the library····· I guess it's saved on a portable hard drive or something. ”

"Area X-13······ The Pioneer crew seemed to be there. The battlefield guy said in a deep voice, glancing at Su Ming's right hand at the same time, and unconsciously put his hand closer to the weapon.

An eerie atmosphere lingers in the room.

While Su Ming was struggling with what to do, the battlefield guy was also entangled in his heart, whether to confess his undercover identity.

Is it really a good thing to let companies know that he is actually an undercover agent of the alliance?

Stealing the data as a legion and having Night Ten bring it back to the Alliance is not an option...... What's going on here doesn't necessarily come to the outside anyway.

Compared to the ancient survivor forces, the Alliance is still too weak...... But mastering the weapon described in Project Torch might give the Alliance enough capital to compete with the fallen empires.

Of course, it is also possible to outright anger them.

The Battlefield laughed and found that the button that decided the direction of the world line seemed to be stuffed into his hand again.

What to do?

Countless thoughts flickered through his mind.

When Venerich instigated him to assassinate Griffin, he had never struggled as much as he did today.

"It's weird."

Not noticing the two people beside him, Meng Liang stared at the screen with his eyes straight and muttered to himself.

“·· I thought they had deleted the data. ”

Refuge power room.

In the reactor chamber, the dark red brood beats like the heart of a human body.

The reactor in the center has been almost completely engulfed by it.

It is evident that each agitation of the brood increases a little more than the last, and the frequency also increases.

Looking at the hatching follicles through the floor-to-ceiling windows, Vali felt his scalp tingle while holding an assault rifle.

At the moment, they are separated from the brood by a floor-to-ceiling window.

While it was impossible for the newly hatched fruiting entity to smash the window and rush into his face, it wasn't a problem to follow their path along the corridor on the periphery of the power room.

Seeing one of the follicles burst and an unknown lifeform crawling out of it, Vali couldn't help but urge.

"Hey, how long is it from the academy?"

"It's coming."

"If you are a mother, if you are Lao Tzu's subordinate-"

"Shut up."

Ignoring the rude Willant, Jiang Xuezhou stared at the console expressionlessly, his hands crackling and operating.

Finally, the last firewall was breached, and a relieved expression finally appeared on her face.

"Done?!" Vali immediately asked.

"Hmm."

Leaving the operation interface with both hands, Jiang Xuezhou looked at the floor-to-ceiling window on the side.

At about the same time, in the reactor chamber across their walls, the partition of the ceiling opened outward, and milky white mist crystals poured down like a waterfall on the brood attached to the reactor.

The agitated brood shrank for a moment, dodging aside as if it were nothing but electricity, and at the same time stretched out its fleshy tentacles, trying to block the source of the coolant.

I have to say that this guy is very smart, and his idea of self-help is also very clear.

However, in the face of enough coolant to cool the reactor, this level of struggle is nothing but futile.

Including the follicles connected by tentacles, the mother nest, which was still alive a second ago, was instantly frozen into ice.

Even the water vapor in the air was frozen into ice crystals throughout the room, and a layer of hoarfrost was condensed on the inside of the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Seeing that the brood was frozen, Vali finally breathed a sigh of relief, and while pressing down the muzzle, he finally relaxed his tense nerves.

"Well done."

Jiang Xuezhou ignored him, just staring intently at the world where time had been suspended by frost, and he was a little distracted for a while.

It's beautiful......

Although it snowed in the swamp, she rarely appreciated it like this.

At this time, an untimely light cough came from the side.

"Hey, I know you're too lazy to pay attention to me, but I'll tell you anyway, I'm going to go to the manager's office to meet my servant next, if you want to stay here with you, if you want to come with me, hurry up."

"Who's going to be with you." Jiang Xuezhou rolled his eyes, but thought that his destination was also there, so he gritted his teeth. 3

Vali grinned and slung his rifle over his shoulder.

The crisis has been resolved.

The brood is the biggest threat here.

However, at this moment, a dangerous omen suddenly came to his mind, and he almost reflexively set up the muzzle of the gun and opened the safe.

"Get down!"

Looking at the sudden move of this Willant, Jiang Xuezhou's eyes widened in surprise.

"What are you doing—"

Before she could finish speaking, a gunshot suddenly exploded in the corner of the room without warning.

"Sudden ——!"

Almost at the same time, Vali quickly turned the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger, but the bullets seemed to hit a wall of air, only to create a circle of twisting ripples.

Shot three times in the chest and one in the shoulder, Vali snorted and fell backwards to the ground

And the assault rifle in his hand swept into the position, and a slender figure appeared from behind the spreading ripples.

The man was wearing a lightweight exoskeleton, and underneath the bullet-torn breastplate was a blue coat.

She held a silenced pistol in her hand, and her muscular figure and the scar under her neck could be seen, and her strength was clearly unusual.

There was a hint of embarrassment written on the wheat-colored face at the moment, and it was clear that the shuttle that Vali had swept past was not unaffected by her.

It's just that compared to Vali lying on the ground, her condition is still much better.

Optical camouflage?!

Jiang Xuezhou was shocked in his heart and immediately ordered.

"Xiao Wang, kill her!"

However, before her robot could fully deploy the weapon system, an EMP grenade rolled next to her robot dog. 6

At the same time, the man stepped forward and kicked her self-defense pistol away, and then a strong hand firmly grabbed her neck.

"Woo-"

Breathless, her face instantly turned the color of pig liver.

She only felt as if her neck was caught in an iron tong, and no matter how much she struggled, she couldn't break it for half a minute, and then the whole person was lifted by that hand.

The smooth movement was so fast that she couldn't react at all.

But it was meant to be.

She is not a front-line fighter at all, and the person in front of her is far from the same level as her in terms of speed, strength, and experience.

Glancing at the little sheep she was carrying in her hand, the woman's mouth let out a mocking sound.

"It's too weak."

Lying on the ground gasping, Vanus quietly grasped the pistol hidden at his waist for an opportunity, while squinting at the strange face, unable to remember where he had seen her. 20

The only thing he recognized was the coat that no wastelander would be unfamiliar with.

While not everyone who wears it is a Vault dweller, it is undoubtedly standard for every Vault dweller.

"Who are you?"

"Guess?"

Having said that, the woman didn't give him a chance to guess at all, and she didn't intend to leave any flaws in this dishonest fellow.

With a casual flick of her right hand holding the silenced pistol, she aimed at his upper body and pulled the trigger until she missed the last shot in the magazine.

Half of his face was blurred with blood, and Vali lay silently in a pool of blood, and the pistol in his right hand fell out.

Looking at the teammate who died in the blink of an eye, Jiang Xuezhou's face completely lost blood, and she looked at the person who pinched her neck in horror, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably.

Especially when the man looked at her again, she even felt that for a moment, her heart stopped beating.

"Well, your face is pretty good."

Looking at the face full of horror, the woman's eyes rolled, and a wheat-colored face suddenly welled up with a penetrating smile.

"Now it's mine."

Ignoring Jiang Xuezhou's desperate struggle, the woman took off a C-shaped glasses from her waist and forcibly pressed them on her face.

The green signal light flashes.

Jiang Xuezhou, who was put on a neural connection device. In an instant, his body shook as if he had been electrocuted, and then the tense muscles and nerves relaxed together.

Confirming that the victim had entered the virtual world, the woman smiled and patted her fair face, leaving her in the corner.

"Take your time and enjoy."

"You don't have to thank me for allowing you to recall some beautiful moments at the last moment of your life."

As she dropped these words, she reloaded the muffled pistol with empty bullets, and at the same time, her wheat-colored skin was gradually replaced by a whiteness that had not been exposed to the sun for a long time.

The changing optical image not only changed her appearance, hair color, but even her dress, not even the slightest detail.

However, compared to the broken optical camouflage, this holographic contouring system is not easy to use.

It's not good if it's far away, it's not okay if it's too close, so you can only deal with it for a short time.

If you really want to become a different person completely, you still have to read the other person's memories carefully and have a cosmetic surgery.

She'll think about it when she gets back.

If the esteemed Lord Guixu thinks that it is necessary to make use of the identity of the female researcher... ……

Removing the time bomb hanging from her waist, the woman attached it to the floor-to-ceiling window not far away.

One last glance at the frozen reactor, she turned and left the power room, heading in the direction of X-13.

The action on the surface should be coming to an end.

The phase cannons deployed nearby would be enough to paralyze the two airships, and the troops led by Lord Guixu himself would attack at the same time.

Now, too, it's time for her dormant people to wake up and retrieve what is theirs from this ancient ruin...